Back to the routine

Yes people, school is now officially in session!!

Welp to sum up the end of the summer... Brian took his DAT test Friday, he did well with an above average score!!! All we can do now is anxiously wait for results, which should come sometime around December. After taking his test, which was in Phoenix, Brian and I decided to celebrate...I guess you could say, but going back to the place we first partied as newly weds!!

So since we had our wedding reception at the Renaissance at Glendale, we got some nice perks to get us back there! So they gave us a free weekend in a huge suite and breakfast. It was such a fun time to be back there and just relax.

Definitely brought back a LOT of memories :)

Well, somehow earlier in the week, I found U of A's biggest fan!! It is so true, and it just so happens to be my little Brian Bear, haha. Check it out for yourself!

What really happened, was he entered a contest to win like $500 at Champs or Footlocker or something like that to show you are U of A's biggest fan! haha. So we found some car paint (which we used to decorate Liz's car when she got married) and I found a pom-pom I got from a basketball game and Brian had the rest. Well, what do you think? Is it U of A's biggest fan??

We also went to a Quinceanera for a girl in our branch, it is when a "young woman" turns 15, anyways, it is like a sweet 16 but at 16 instead. It's latin tradition. Here is Myra, isn't she cute?

So looking at my school schedule I think Brian and I are going to be so busy this semester, with work, school and church. Anyway, it dawned on me today, not one of my classes are in English! I think am going crazy, I forgot how to speak Italian, so I speak Spanish in Italian and in Portuguese class I speak Italian, the only classes I am sane in are my Spanish classes. I don't know what I will do! Brian is starting work next week as a tutor and is taking lots of classes in hopes to graduate sooner, we will see.

Random update

Well right now I am bored, actually taking a break from sewing all of Brian's patches on his scout uniform haha. My fingers are hurting, and I am still on the first one! HAHA. This would be so much easier if I just gave it to my grandma.

Anyway, recently I have come across a new discovery, well, not really new, yet a more severe state I guess you could say. MILK! I love dairy products, cheese, milk, yogurt, ice cream....I could go on. Anyway, since my sophomore year at UA I began drinking Soy milk, when I began my health nut stages, then I decided to go back to milk, thinking I could un-do any intolerance my body grew hah! anyway, I think drinking all that soy created a lactose intolerance for me. Now it is worse than ever. I am forced to drink soy milk and give up all those yummy diary products I love. I recently got really sick after eating some yogurt, so, I guess I will just have to force myself to eat/drink lactose free things! :(


On a happier note, Brian and I went on a "mini" vacation recently with my parents to California. It was a great little get away trip and we had so much fun. Brian learned to skim board and we both surfed! Well, Brian mostly, but I did get some board action haha. Anyway, we had a great time and were lucky to tag-a-long with my parents on this trip.

Brian about to surf

Somehow during this trip this man put this parrot on my arm!!

Well, a quick update, school starts the 24th, along with work. Also Brian will be taking the DAT this upcoming FRIDAY! ahh, we are nervous, yet anxious. I can't wait to know where we will be in the next year or even four years!!

Missionary update:
John: Elder Mortenson has been out for almost 3 months!!! He is serving in a town called Lompoc in Northern California. He is currently teaching some investigators who are friends with members in the local area.
I will post pictures of John once I get some from him!! :)

Jonathan: Elder La Rosa is now in Queens Park, London, England. He loves the mission, and got a special assignment after leaving the MTC. Once he reached London, his mission President told him he is to start a new branch that is Spanish and Portuguese speaking only. So his mission changed from English to Spanish and Portuguese. So Jonathan's companion knows some Portuguese so he is teaching him and since Jonathan speaks some Spanish he is learning to teach the lessons.

Jonathan on the tube in London

Is that my baby?

Gosh I have been behind in so behind in blogging because I couldn't find my camera cord to post pictures, until now!! Anyway, this is what you get....

So today in church, it was random as usual. But this Sunday was especially odd. Well, we are sitting in sacrament, we had just sung the first hymn then all of a sudden everything stops. and the president of our branch starts starring at Brian and I. And at about this time announcements are made and then another hymn and the blessing of the sacrament, so everyone is waiting for President to get up and preside. Well, he is just starring and all of a sudden he starts pointing at us...well Brian actually. And we are confused, and Brian is like "who? me?" and it was a funny moment but Brian heads up to the stand and sits down, then a woman (who no one knew) comes up to the stand with a baby and hands the baby to Brian. HAHA. I almost die laughing. SO, I guess she wants her baby blessed but in English, and since Brian was the first white boy presidente saw he called him up to bless this lady's baby. Well, Brian was freakin out because he had never done that nor knew the blessing but presidente told him what to say and he just had to translate the beginning. I think the funniest part of this story is that Brian didn't ever know the gender of the baby! hahaha. In the blessing he would call the baby "it" and "this child" hahaha. Oh boy, at one point he called the baby a "he"! Luckily the baby was a boy! Well you would think by the name you could tell what it was but Presidente told him the baby was call "Chandell" which he mistook for the Latin name "Yandell", thus why Brian thought it MAY be a girl, either way the name doesn't sound too masculine to me! Anyway, now our branch thinks Brian has a baby named Yandell. The end.

So this is what you have missed so far...

Katie and Ferenc got married!!
Here is picture of the old Tucson girls, reunited! And who is that child?

Celebrating July 4th with Brad and Emily (and baby Carson), watching the fireworks at A mountain...can I add the ice cream trucks play "la cucaracha"! haha
My mom's cousin, so my 2nd cousin?? Anyway, Sandra and her daughter, Cata, came to visit all the way from Colombia :) They even made a special visit to Tucson. We were glad to have them!

This past weekend Brian and I decided to go hike 7 Falls, in Sabino Canyon in northeastern Tucson. It was a great experience and beautiful!! It was a little less than 10 miles, so we were exhausted when we got back to the car. We started the hike around 6:30 and didn't finish it until 11:30ish. Thankfully, when you get to the end of the canyon there is a swiiming hole, so Brian jumped in, it was freezing cold. Anyway I highly suggest the hike for anyone, just take a LOT of water!

At the swimming hole taking a break and about to head back

The sun was just coming up...so pretty!

Yes, the water was VERY cold!!! haha